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Community Bridges
Tucson, Arizona

Director of Nursing (Southern Region)

Registered NurseFull-Time

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Job Description

Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI) is an integrated behavioral healthcare agency offering a variety of different programs throughout Arizona. CBI provides residential, outpatient, inpatient, patient-centered medical homes, medication-assisted treatment, and crisis services to individuals experiencing crisis, opioid use disorder, homelessness, and mental illness.

Director of Nursing

Community Bridges, Inc. (CB I) is an integrated behavioral healthcare agency offering a variety of different programs throughout Arizona. CBI provides residential, outpatient, inpatient, patient-centered medical homes, medication-assisted treatment, and crisis services to individuals experiencing crisis, opioid use disorder, homelessness, and mental illness.

CBI is the premiere non-profit fully integrated healthcare provider of substance use and behavioral health programs in Arizona, including prevention, education and treatment using cutting-edge, nationally recognized, evidence-based models.

Job Summary

The Director of Nursing (DON) provides operational and clinical leadership for the assigned market, facility, or program portfolio. This role is accountable for nursing operations, regulatory oversight, workforce engagement, quality outcomes, staff accountability, and strategic market support.

The DON translates enterprise nursing strategy into consistent site-level execution, strengthens the credibility and readiness of the assigned market, and ensures nursing practice meets organizational, regulatory, accreditation, and patient safety expectations.

This position also supports growth readiness by building stable nursing operations, developing leaders, improving workforce performance, and maintaining sustainable quality and compliance outcomes.

  • Skills/Requirements
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
  • Minimum of 5 years of nursing experience, including 2 years of progressive nursing leadership experience.

Experience leading nursing operations in behavioral health, crisis, inpatient, residential, community-based, outpatient, or integrated care settings.

Strong knowledge of regulatory readiness, medication management, clinical documentation, patient safety, incident response, and quality improvement.

Demonstrated ability to lead leaders, manage performance, interpret operational data, and implement corrective action plans.

Ability to work flexible hours as needed to maintain leadership visibility, support survey readiness, and respond to urgent operational needs

  • Active RN license in good standing for the applicable state or jurisdiction of practice.
  • For Arizona: Level 1 Fingerprint Clearance Card.
  • State issued drivers license (valid and in good standing).
  • Clear 39-monthMotor Vehicle Record (MVR).
  • CBI Offers an excellent benefits package!
  • Generous PTO accrual (5 weeks!),
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, Supplemental plans

Hospital indemnity/ Critical Illness,

Pet Insurance,

Dependent Care Savings, Health Care Savings,

401K with employer match - 100% vested upon enrollment,

Wellness programs,

  • Tuition Reimbursement and Scholarship Programs, incentives, and more!
  • Very Competitive pay rates
  • CBI is growing and expanding our services!

We are experience tremendous growth in this time. As an essential service provider, we value all our employees and their careers in the clinical field.

*For the past four years, The Phoenix Business Journal has recognized CBI as one of the top ten healthiest mid-size employers in the Valley! *

CBI Values your Career and have lots of growth opportunities!

Our team is supported by strong and competent leadership. Come join our team of passionate individuals who are serious about making a difference in the lives of our patients and the communities we serve.

About our Culture, commitment to employees!

We are looking for driven and compassionate individual’s that thrive in an upbeat and safe working environment. We dedicate a lot of thought and effort into work life balance as well as our competitive composition structure.

We know life happens, that’s why we all start with a 5-week PTO plan as well as a wide range of unique benefits!

Our Facilities

Our 26 locations are all state-of-the-art facility that provides top notch integrated care. We are proud to adhere to a “no wrong door” treatment approach that allows our staff to dramatically improve the quality of life for the patients in their care.

CBI treats patients from all different walks of life and believes in maintaining the dignity of human life. Recovery is possible!

CBI Offers an excellent benefits package!

Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, Supplemental plans - Hospital indemnity/ Critical Illness, Pet Insurance, Dependent Care Savings, Health Care Savings, 401K with employer match - 100% vested upon enrollment, Generous PTO accrual, Wellness programs, Tuition Reimbursement and Scholarship Programs, incentives, and more!

For the past four years, The Phoenix Business Journal has recognized CBI as one of the top ten healthiest mid-size employers in the Valley.

CBI treats patients from all different walks of life and believes in maintaining the dignity of human life. Recovery is possible!

Key Responsibilities

The Director of Nursing provides operational and clinical leadership for assigned facilities, ensuring nursing practice meets regulatory, accreditation, and patient safety standards. This role translates enterprise nursing strategy into site-level execution while developing leaders and improving workforce performance.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and an active RN license in good standing. A minimum of 5 years of nursing experience is required, including at least 2 years of progressive nursing leadership experience.

Qualifications

Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Regulatory compliancePerformance managementStrategic planningOperational leadershipCrisis interventionEvidence-based practice

Behavioral Health — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 50 active Nursing Leadership listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% are remote, 56% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Arizona is 100.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.3% of Arizona clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

How many Nursing Leadership jobs are remote?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedNursing Leadership median $115k (middle half $100k–$135k)99 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingArizona index 100.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Nursing Leadership listings in Arizona108 active5,843 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 34% remote · 56% no call · 74% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedArizona Registered Nurse listings: 8% state a sign-on bonus · 2% offer loan repayment108 active listings, Nov 2026
New Behavioral Health listings804 in the last 30 days563 the 30 days before (+43%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
95% this job
Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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CME allowance
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 1.5this job 1.5
Better work-life than 30% of Nursing Leadership listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,187 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Community Bridges

Hospitals and Health Care
Mesa, AZ
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Generous PTO accrual (5 weeks)
Medical, Dental, Vision
Disability, Life, Supplemental plans
Hospital indemnity/Critical Illness
Pet Insurance
Dependent Care Savings, Health Care Savings
401K with employer match - 100% vested upon enrollment
Wellness programs

Living in Tucson

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$320k
Typical market rent
$1,428/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
96.9
State income tax
Up to 2.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Tucson, AZ metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.